Lent Bumps 2008
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The Lent Bumps 2008 were a series of rowing races at the University of Cambridge held on the River Cam from Tuesday February 26, 2008 until Saturday March 1, 2008. The event was run as a bumps race and was the 121st race in the series of Lent Bumps which have been held annually in late February or early March on the 7th week of Lent Term in this form since 1887 (see Lent Bumps for the format of the races). This year, a total of 121 crews took part (69 men's crews and 52 women's crews), comprising over a thousand participants in total.
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[edit] Head of the River crews
1st & 3rd Trinity men rowed over each day to retain the Lents headship won from Caius in 2006. It is the first time they have held it for two consecutive years.
1st & 3rd Trinity women also rowed over every day to retain their headship. It is the first time they have held it for two consecutive years.
1st & 3rd Trinity currently hold the double headship, and are the only club other than Caius ever to achieve this. Furthermore, they are the first club to defend a double headship successfully, retaining both men's and women's headship for a second year.
[edit] Highest 2nd VIIIs
1st & 3rd Trinity II bumped Lady Margaret II on the Friday to become the highest men's 2nd VIII.
Jesus II women made history for the second set of bumps in a row, bumping up into the first division to remain the highest placed women's 2nd crew- a position that has never been achieved before.
[edit] Links to races in other years
Preceding year | Current year | Following year |
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Lent Bumps 2007 | Lent Bumps 2008 | Lent Bumps 2009 |
May Bumps 2007 | May Bumps 2008 | May Bumps 2009 |
[edit] Bumps Charts
Below are the bumps charts all 4 men's and all 3 women's divisions, with the men's event on the left and women's event on the right. The bumps chart represents the progress of every crew over all four days of the racing. To follow the progress of any particular crew, simply find the crew's name on the left side of the chart and follow the line to the end-of-the-week finishing position on the right of the chart.
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[edit] Division times
Each division gets one day off in the 5-day format; 1st divisions resting on day 1, 2nd divisions on day 2 etc. All divisions race on Saturday. All times are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Division | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
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Men's 1 | − | 16:40 | 16:40 | 16:40 | 16:40 | |
Women's 1 | − | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | |
Men's 2 | 16:40 | − | 15:20 | 15:20 | 15:20 | |
Women's 2 | 16:00 | − | 14:40 | 14:40 | 14:40 | |
Men's 3 | 15:20 | 15:20 | − | 14:00 | 14:00 | |
Women's 3 | 14:40 | 14:40 | − | 13:20 | 13:20 | |
Men's 4 | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | − | 12:40 |
[edit] External links
- Official results from CUCBC